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Good afternoon, Progressive Electorate readers. This is your afternoon open thread to discuss all things Hill-related. Use this thread to praise or bash Congresscritters, share a juicy tip, ask questions, offer critiques and suggestions, or post manifestos.
This is an open source project, so feel free to add your own insights. Here's the news I found lurking around the Internets...
There are daily excited posts on the Daily Kos telling us about the new additions to a letter asking Senate Democrats to agree to vote for a public health insurance option through a reconciliation vote (where they only need 50).
Today's big news Maria Cantwell signed on. I'm all for positivity but this is growing to be absurd. Here is the only list that matters. With 41 Republicans you must not lose 10 Democrats.
Mark Begich Mark Pryor
Blanche Lincoln Joe Lieberman Tom Carper Bill Nelson
Evan Bayh Mary Landrieu Claire Mccaskill Jon Tester Max Baucus Ben Nelson Kay Hagan Byron Dorgan Kent Conrad
Mark Warner
Jim Webb
You gotta have 7 from this list and hold all the rest. Does anyone think that's likely or even possible? We know 6 of them are for sure nos. That leaves the 7 Public Option heroes as Begich, Baucus, McCaskill, Tester, Hagan, Dorgan and Webb?
The other conversation that none of these cheery diaries are having.
What public option would we be getting?
Good afternoon, Progressive Electorate readers. This is your afternoon open thread to discuss all things Hill-related. Use this thread to praise or bash Congresscritters, share a juicy tip, ask questions, offer critiques and suggestions, or post manifestos.
No real programming notes today, so here's the news...
Good afternoon, Progressive Electorate readers. This is your afternoon open thread to discuss all things Hill-related. Use this thread to praise or bash Congresscritters, share a juicy tip, ask questions, offer critiques and suggestions, or post your manifestos.
On a programming note, this entry is going to be a bit thin and probably rather bitter. The Federal Government is closed for the second day in a row, costing $100 million in lost productivity. Tomorrow's not looking very good, either. Now I'm from Pennsylvania but this is getting ridiculous. And it really isn't helping that a quarter of the district's snowplows are out of order.
Good afternoon, Progressive Electorate readers. This is your afternoon open thread to discuss all things Hill-related. Use this thread to praise or bash Congresscritters, share a juicy tip, ask questions, offer critiques and suggestions, or post manifestos.
Some the Hill news that's fit to blog is over the fold . . .
Alabama Attorney General Troy King announced he is one of several Republican AG's asking for an investigation into Ben Nelson's trade off for health care reform vote.
Alabama Attorney General Troy King says the investigation by 13 Republican attorneys general into a deal that allowed a Democrat-backed health care reform bill to pass the U.S. Senate is not motivated by politics.
King said he and the attorneys general believe a deal that provides special treatment for Nebraska's Medicaid program is unconstitutional and was designed to win the vote of Democratic Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson.
King said he expects Democratic attorneys general to join the investigation before it's over. He said he was reaching out to other attorneys general regardless of party.
The Republican attorneys general have written a letter to congressional leaders telling them to remove the Nebraska deal from the final version of the health care reform bill or face legal action.
Not motivated by politics? - it's all about politics. his re-election campaign.
What about an investigation into deals made with war contractors? Instead he's worried about something that has not even passed Congress yet. Jeez. This is just pathetic.
Good afternoon, Progressive Electorate readers. This is your afternoon open thread to discuss all things Hill-related. Use this thread to praise or bash Congresscritters, share a juicy tip, ask questions, offer critiques and suggestions, or post manifestos.
As always, this is a crosspost from Congress Matters and I will refrain from my routine claim that this is the most important writing of the day. That would be the diary I reference below about Islamophobia.
"Let me say at the outset that change is never easy," Nelson said in a press conference at the Capitol on Saturday. "But change is what's necessary in America today, that's why I intend to vote for cloture and vote for healthcare reform."
"I have strongly-held views and I have fought hard to prevent to prevent tax dollars from being used to subsidize abortions," he explained. "I believe we have accomplished that goal."
Good afternoon, Progressive Electorate readers. This is your afternoon open thread to discuss all things Hill-related. Use this thread to praise or bash Congresscritters, share a juicy tip, ask questions, offer critiques and suggestions, or post manifestos. We'll be checking in all weekend, especially if the snowpocalypse hits.
